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Tampere University of Technology and University of Tampere welcome you to Re-City 2015 Congress taking place in Tampere, Finland, on 3–4 September, 2015. The deadline for abstracts has now been extended to 15 May, 2015. Early Bird Registration expires on 30 April. The 1st International City Regeneration Congress provides an interdisciplinary forum for researchers and practitioners in the fields of urban …

The Puukuokka housing block designed by Anssi Lassila’s OOPEAA has been shortlisted for The Plan Awards 2015. The Plan Awards have been created and promoted by The Plan, an Italian architecture journal, to promote the work done by designers, academics, critics and students in the fields of architecture, design and city planning. The winners will be announced on 20 May, …

Hyvä on olla, kun on lähellä kuolemaa. Pleasant it is to be when death is near. – Uuno Kailas, 1931; English translation Sofia Singler Città dei Morti – City of the Dead, the spring exhibition at the Alvar Aalto Museum gallery in Jyväskylä, on until 17.05.2015, welcomes its visitors with the above quote from Uuno Kaila’s poem “In the Morning”, …

The Chamber of Architecture of Estonia invites to join in a 24hr conference The Good, the Bad and the Ugly in Tallinn from Friday the 17th to Saturday the 18th April, 2015 at the Russian Theatre, Vabaduse väljak (Freedom Square) 5, Tallinn. The conference will discuss the judgments of the good, the bad and the ugly in architecture, by whom, …

Europa Nostra, the pan-European network for Europe’s cultural and natural heritage, has announced today that the restoration of Alvar Aalto’s masterpiece, the Viipuri Library (Vyborg, Russia; built between 1933–35), is awarded with the Europa Nostra 2015 Award for conservation. The Jury were in no doubt they were dealing here with one of the major masterpieces of the modern movement in architecture. …

Researchers, students and practitioners are invited to the 7th Annual Symposium of Architectural Research in Finland 22–24 October, 2015. The symposium is organised by the Department of Architecture at the Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture, together with The Department of Architecture at the Tampere University of Technology and Oulu School of Architecture. This year, the symposium will …

Artist, architect Ulla-Maija Alanen continues her artistic expedition to the various meanings and forms of existence of human space. Her photographic exhibition Bodyscapes is on display at the Museum of Estonian Architecture in Tallinn between 11 April and 7 June, 2015. Her previous exhibition Human Space was on display at the Alvar Aalto Museum Gallery in Jyväskylä between 7 February …

The School of Architecture and the University of Tianjin and the Chinese press group, Urban Environmental Design (UED) have announced the fourth edition of the UIA-HYP Cup 2015, the annual international competition open to students enrolled in any accredited school of architecture in the world. The language of the competition is English. The competition topic is Transformation: Place, Tradition and …

Celebrating the centenaries of the births of Tapio Wirkkala (1915–1985) and Rut Bryk (1916–1999), two influential figures in Finnish design, the Tapio Wirkkala Rut Bryk Foundation invites to participate in their third jubilee seminar titled “Empathy in Architecture – Emotion and Embodied Simulation in Design” on 21 April 2015 in Helsinki. In addition to Dr. Prof. Vittorio Gallese , the …

Juhani Pallasmaa, the well-known Finnish architect and theorist, highly-regarded in international circles partly for his long term of service on the jury that assigns the Pritzker Prize, visited as a guest speaker and protagonist at a series of three conferences in Italy in March. The conferences gave Pallasmaa the ideal platform to present an Italian audience with his ideas and …

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04.12.2017

A perfect way to celebrate Finland's centenary of independence in London: enjoying a Finnish sauna on a rooftop in Southbank, overlooking the River Thames. The sauna designed by Aalto University students is open until December 30.

Architect, professor Rainer Mahlamaki will be awarded the prestigious Prince Eugen Medal for outstanding artistic achievement. The medal will be awarded by the King of Sweden, HM Carl XVI Gustaf, on November 17. Also designer Eero Aarnio will recieve the medal. Congratulations to both!